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Alcohol Ban in Little India ......... Job Done ......
and the businesses / Restaurants there too had a healthy problem .. no customers ..nutnut wrote:So, there was no riot in Little India over the weekend. It must have been the alcohol.
They should make it a permanent arrangement, it seems it was obviously the issue - otherwise, business as usual.
/sarcastic

/sarcastic
I have the 'Perfect-for-Singapore' solution
Restrict alcohol sales only to those with a pink (or maybe also blue) I/C.
Only allow unrestricted alcohol sales at select establishments with special 'unlimited' alcohol permits, which coincidentally will be carefully controlled and only sold to those locations frequented by 'desirable' foreign talent and tourists, say in the Quays, MB, Orchard, etc areas. (And owned by an SME that Temasek etc. has ownership in!)
With a few more ideas like this I fancy I could be an MP on this little red dot.


Restrict alcohol sales only to those with a pink (or maybe also blue) I/C.
Only allow unrestricted alcohol sales at select establishments with special 'unlimited' alcohol permits, which coincidentally will be carefully controlled and only sold to those locations frequented by 'desirable' foreign talent and tourists, say in the Quays, MB, Orchard, etc areas. (And owned by an SME that Temasek etc. has ownership in!)
With a few more ideas like this I fancy I could be an MP on this little red dot.

And rename the country to -> "choose a name from Sandpit" .. + pore .. Mideast-pore ??zzm9980 wrote:I have the 'Perfect-for-Singapore' solution![]()
Restrict alcohol sales only to those with a pink (or maybe also blue) I/C.
Only allow unrestricted alcohol sales at select establishments with special 'unlimited' alcohol permits, which coincidentally will be carefully controlled and only sold to those locations frequented by 'desirable' foreign talent and tourists, say in the Quays, MB, Orchard, etc areas. (And owned by an SME that Temasek etc. has ownership in!)
With a few more ideas like this I fancy I could be an MP on this little red dot.
the idea of Liquor permit for drinking is common in a middle eastern country .. I don't know about other countrieszzm9980 wrote:Why do that? I don't get it.ecureilx wrote:
And rename the country to -> "choose a name from Sandpit" .. + pore .. Mideast-pore ??
While visiting my cousin, my cousin said he has a liquor permit, allowing him to buy and consume liquor .. funny, it wasn't ..
PS: Sandpit = Middle East ..
Oh, Liquor permits are used in the US too. I also know they're used in India, as i know someone who makes a lot of money due to family connections which allowed him to get one. In fact, I just assumed any business here that served liquor had one too. My mistake then.ecureilx wrote:the idea of Liquor permit for drinking is common in a middle eastern country .. I don't know about other countrieszzm9980 wrote:Why do that? I don't get it.ecureilx wrote:
And rename the country to -> "choose a name from Sandpit" .. + pore .. Mideast-pore ??
While visiting my cousin, my cousin said he has a liquor permit, allowing him to buy and consume liquor .. funny, it wasn't ..
PS: Sandpit = Middle East ..

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I don't remember having to get a personal Liquor permit, to buy & consume booze, when I turned 21.
Did I miss something there or had a Whoosh????

SOME PEOPLE TRY TO TURN BACK THEIR ODOMETERS. NOT ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHY I LOOK THIS WAY. I'VE TRAVELED A LONG WAY, AND SOME OF THE ROADS WEREN'T PAVED. ~ Will Rogers
No, but a business needs one to sell. Was squirrel talking about personal permits? If so then I missed that, and he understood my original joke.sundaymorningstaple wrote:I don't remember having to get a personal Liquor permit, to buy & consume booze, when I turned 21.Did I miss something there or had a Whoosh????
I was referring to permits for consumption..zzm9980 wrote:No, but a business needs one to sell. Was squirrel talking about personal permits? If so then I missed that, and he understood my original joke.sundaymorningstaple wrote:I don't remember having to get a personal Liquor permit, to buy & consume booze, when I turned 21.Did I miss something there or had a Whoosh????

BTW, in Singapore, to sell you need permits anyway, and must paste the large notice, if you allow people drink on your premises, something like .. "is allowed to sell intoxicating liquor .. " not that anybody even bothers to see it ..
Naturally, of course! After a riot and people getting killed (or was it just one?), and the news being reported around the world: With alcohol being banned, despite most people going there for shopping, and Food W/Beverages ... despite ALL of those considerations, trade is up!Sergei82 wrote:CNA showed report in the morning where some shop owners in LA were reporting a large increase (IN-crease, not DE-crease!) in earnings.
Amazing isn't it!
It's like they banned the Indians from Little India, dissuaded the majority of people from visiting, and yet everything is suddenly running at 150%!
well, it was a bit annoying when CNA was doing hour by hour update, that there were no incidents in LI, and then "so far, no violations occurred .. " etcJR8 wrote:Naturally, of course! After a riot and people getting killed (or was it just one?), and the news being reported around the world: With alcohol being banned, despite most people going there for shopping, and Food W/Beverages ... despite ALL of those considerations, trade is up!
Amazing isn't it!
It's like they banned the Indians from Little India, dissuaded the majority of people from visiting, and yet everything is suddenly running at 150%!
And then, when I was at a charity lunch on Sunday, a SG'n asked how is Little India, and I went "same same .. " and she was like "oh, I never been there, I am so scared and terrified to go there, even before the riots. All my friends say it is unsafe .. "
I am like "REALLY ?" and I told her nicely, compared to China Town during the CNY month, Little India is not that packed, even on the worst crowded day of the year ..
Yes, there are a lot doing 'tourist' visits to Little India I guess .. and making up the numbers. Including some volunteers who decided to distribute Ice Cream as a show of Friendship to "INDIAN FRIENDS .. "
PS: Sometime ago, I wrote about a few locals, who claimed they were terrified to go to Little India, and surprise Surprise, saw a few of them in Mustafa, and they said with a silly look on there face, that, Only Mustafa can find almost everything .. especially late night ..
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